What I Learned During Lent

Lent is known as a season where most people use this time to repent, fast, and evaluate. It’s used as a time for self-examination and self-reflection. Lent lasts for forty days (excluding Sundays) which represents the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness. The season starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday. This year I decided to finallyyyyy take it seriously and participate (because every year I start and never finish) and I am happy to say it was a journey that was worthwhile. I decided to reflect on myself and my life and here are a 4 things I learned during that time.

1, I learned that I did not love myself like the way I thought.

Note: I just want to say this point (and this blog post really) is fairly long and is pretty vague, so I’ll make an in-depth…